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The National Communications Officer of the NDC Sammy Gyamfi has described as ‘mind-boggling’ the Chief Justice’s petition to the General Legal Council against lawmaker Dominic Ayine over his criticism of the proceedure of the bench during the 2020 election petition. Mr Gyamfi in a Facebook post Thursday wrote: “In a democracy, every institution is subject to scrutiny and criticism, and ...

A deputy Finance Minister-designate, Abena Osei Asare, has justified the excessive borrowing of the Akufo-Addo led administration saying Ghana must continue to borrow to undertake projects. Answering questions at her vetting on Thursday, Abena Osei Asare, who has been renominated by Akufo-Addo said several projects being undertaken by the government must be sustained through smart borrowing. “We need to continue ...

A former Energy Minister under the erstwhile NDC administration, Emmanuel Kofi Armah Buah, has slammed the government over the decision by ExxonMobil to abandon its oil block and pack out of the country after undertaking seismic works. Speaking to the media in parliament, Mr Buah who is also the MP for Ellembelle said the government failed to provide favourable conditions ...

Sakora-Wonoo, a farming community near Bonwire in the Kwabre East District in the Ashanti Region, was rendered too small to receive the great number of mourners who thronged the town to mourn the passing of a former General Secretary of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie. As early as 7 a.m. Thursday, vehicles, many of them cross-country, ...

A non-governmental organization RaphaelKorda foundation has donated some medical equipment to the Nyive CHPs compound located far East of the Ghana-Togo border in the Ho Municipality of the Volta Region. The items donated include packs of disposable nose masks, a digital blood pressure monitor, penlight, a pack of test tubes, diagnostic otoscope, gallons of liquid soap, bleach, and a wheelchair ...

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament (MP) for Agona East in the Central Region, Mrs Queenstar Maame Pokuah Sawyerr, has launched a health scheme to bring healthcare delivery to the doorstep of the constituents. The scheme, dubbed “Maame Pokuah Health Scheme” (MPHS), is geared towards improving the health needs of the constituents in particularly hard-to-reach communities and villages ...

Last week, in the words of the English poet William Wordsworth, one of ‘Nature’s inscrutable workmanships,’ took place in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Mount Nyiragongo, one of the world’s most active volcanoes, erupted. Seeing the red-hot molten lava thrown hundreds of feet into the sky from the belly of the earth, and then flowing at 60 km/hour was ...

The Motor Traffic and Transport Department of the Ghana Police Service has deployed personnel to the Accra-Kumasi highway to replace speed bumps with rumble strips on the stretch. The decision was taken after a visit to the gridlock prone stretch on the highway which left commuters stranded for hours last week. The situation also endangers the lives of patients in ...

THE BANK of Ghana’s latest confidence surveys conducted in April 2021 showed some dip in both consumer and business sentiments. Consumer confidence dipped slightly on account of recent increases in petroleum prices at the pump, new taxes, and transportation fares. The latest monetary policy committee (MPC) report by the Central Bank, which made this known, said this followed on the ...

The Concerned Drivers Association has said the 13 per cent transport fare hike announced on Wednesday, 2 June 2021 is an “insult” to its members and has vowed to implement a 20-per cent increase. The PRO of the group, Mr David Agboado, told Class News in an interview that: “We are communicating to our passengers and our cherished customers that ...